SNAP-FISHING. 



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together, place the large hooks so that the point of one 

 of them shall stand towards the head of the bait-fish, 

 and the other towards the tail. \ 



CHAP. IV. 



Snap-Fishing, and how to bait the Hooks. 



Dead-Snap, with Two or Four Hooks. 



Take about twelve inches of stout gimp, make a loop 

 at one end, at the other end tie a hook, size No. 2, 

 and about an inch further up the gimp tie another 

 hook of the same size ; procure a drop-bead lead, 

 which the fishing-tackle shops keep fixed to a small 

 ring or two. Now, to bait the hooks, proceed as fol- 

 lows : put the loop of the gimp under the gill of a 

 dead-bait-fish, and bring it out at its mouth ; draw the 

 gimp till the hook at the bottom comes just behind 



